On Sunday I wrote about Twix acting strange and just having to go out to pee… yeah… or so I thought. So quick refresher. We had come home from the parade and he was tired. We went to bed and he slept hard for a while. Suddenly he sat up and stared at me, acting very weird and drooling. I thought he was about to have a seizure or maybe he was bloated. Something was wrong! He went outside and I watched him. He was peeing for almost 3 minutes. And that was it. He went right back in, acting normal, ate his dinner and went back to bed. I was laughing at it all, thinking how dumb it would be if I went to the vet with a dog that had to pee…

Sunday afternoon Twix started having diarrhea. He was still acting normal and didn’t show any signs of pain at all. To make it easy for myself and so he could do his business when he needed I let the dogs be outside while I was at work on Monday. I could watch them in the cameras all day and they looked okay, despite the sudden and unexpected temperature drop that came with a cold front that I at least had missed. When I came home he was perfectly fine. I made some chicken & rice that I mixed with his food to see if that helped.
The night between Monday and Tuesday was a mess. Twix woke me up several times to get out. His stomach was on fire. He didn’t show any signs of pain, just diarrhea. I needed to know how it looked like, if it was bloody or anything weird so I let him be in his crate while at work on Tuesday. I was ready to clean when I got home. Thankfully I couldn’t find anything when I got home. But he came out and drank some water and not too long after he threw it up together with some of the chicken and rice he got 14 hours earlier. I wasn’t sure if he didn’t eat everything right in the morning when I gave it to him, he could have saved some and ate it right before I came home but it wasn’t digested. That’s when I knew, we were going to the vet in the morning… I didn’t give him any dinner. I was going to “restart” his stomach. That’s when you don’t feed them for 24 hours and then only give small portions of chicken and rice with 3 hours apart.

He had left a couple of accidents in the livingroom this morning. No biggie. Cleaned it up and that was it. Called the vet as soon as they opened and got an appointment. Twix was not happy. First of all, he was going alone, second of all it involved a car. Even thou the car ride was only 5 minutes this is how he looked like when we got to the vets office

But he willingly jumped out of the car and in to the vet clinic. 74 lbs… (33.5kg). He is a big boy! He behaved so well at the vets clinic. Not that I expected anything else really but there was a new vet whom he never met. She was awesome! Twix thought that he was there for everyone to love on! Kind of misbehaving wanting to jump on everyone and give them kisses and love… haha. He didn’t even grinch when he got a burning shot!

So after about 30 minutes we could leave the clinic with one shot, Metronidazole and FortiFlora and hopefully that will help him get better. Together with a chicken and rice diet for a week he should be good to go soon. It’s really awesome that he is acting normal so he doesn’t have any restrictions.

He was happy to be back home and get some breakfast. Since I had to cook the chicken I bought earlier this morning he only got some rice with the FortiFlora to begin with. He was so hungry he ate that right off the bat! I felt so bad! Poor dog!

So, what I thought was something quite funny, about to go to the vet for a peeing dog, actually turned out to be something we had to take care of. I believe he will be just fine in a couple of days. I may have to join him on the rice diet as I’m broke now *lol*